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je9h Snow Flea (Hypogastrura nivicola)

Overconfident "catch-all" species in difficult group

Jan. 22, 2020 18:56:02 +0000 zdanko

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Given that microscopic detail is necessary apparently to ID many snowfleas to species or even genus, chances are that many observations by nonexperts should probably be ratcheted back to a higher level, e.g. maybe to Collembola?

Posted by je9h about 4 years ago

This is something to be done by users, not curators. You can add IDs to observations you think are incorrect.

Posted by zdanko about 2 years ago

Okay, fine. Thanks.
This was in response to a posting in the forum some time ago in which users who noticed groups that were subject to overconfident IDs by the iNat photo recognition app were instructed to create a flag to explain the problem… only to be told later that identifiers should handle it themselves.

Posted by je9h about 2 years ago

Ah, I see. My point of view is that this species only has 20 observations now so it's pretty quick to go through, but I now realize that when you made this flag it may have been higher.

Posted by zdanko about 2 years ago

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